Thank you for stopping by to read my latest review on Amazon Gift Card fraud or scam which is happening very vigorously in recent years. I decided to write a bit about what are the scams and how to report or even come out of it if you were the victim of Amazon gift card offers or product purchase.

What Is Amazon Gift Card Scam Scheme!

There are a variety of scams in which scammers try to cheat you into paying gift cards from well-known brands like Amazon, eBay, Visa, Walmart, Mcdonalds and other small brands.

This scam offer mostly come through pop-under or pop up (ads) medium, and this is where you’ll be asked to enter your personal details promising you’d get a FREE giftcard.

People on the internet vulnerable to get cheated by various means by fraudster offering gift cards ranging from $25, $50, $100, $500, $1000 and what not.

Do you think any company would throw away $500 gift card for noting in return?

Freebies are always good but most of the time freebies are not FREE.

Those who seek free gift cards online love to get something without paying a dime. The scammers are well equipped to this, and they know how to target people to get into this scheme and cheat in no time.

Amazon Gift Card Offer Appears on Stunning Lead Capture Page

I do not claim all seekers may want them FREE, some are willing to pay something but in general, freebie seekers are large in number as per the recent survey statistics in 2017, it may skyrocket in 2018 and coming years as well.

Firstly, the scammers create a sales/lead capture page attempting to create a page that may look like Amazon or any brands, asking for a payment once survey or any action you take on the front page.

Those who really not aware of these tactics will pay attention to this and pay some fee assuming they would get a free Amazon gift card or anything for that matter.

Due to a vast number of people using the internet and have internet access via Mobile phone. There could be two types of offers you may certainly come across. Those are desktop offers and Mobile offers. The scammer will create a page with the help of a third-party marketing tool that empowers them to work perfectly on all devices like Desktop, Mobile, and Tablet etc.

These days hosting a site with some random domain name is not that hard for any individual. Just by paying $40-$50 for both (Domain and hosting), anyone can have it too. Here it comes Marketing tool that helps them to build an attractive sales page either with a video attached to it or just an image integrated into an autoresponder.

Then what next!

Amazon Gift Card Offers Overflows

A newbie just sees this opportunity for the first time and jumps in immediately to enter his name and email id, this might not sound a great deal for the scammers but the best part is each email id is worth for them. They sell all of your information to some other advertising companies that are in the same niche or often you receive free offers in your inbox, not necessarily you need to opt-in.

Each time you enter your name in the advertiser’s page, the scammers will get paid $2 – $60 per lead, it can be the gift card, give away, lottery, free samples, payday loan, forex software/trading and you can name a few.

Like I mentioned above, the scammer makes a lot of money just by selling your lead to third-party advertisers/companies. This is the reason sometimes you get plenty of spam emails that overflows in your mailbox.

What If You Order Gift Card From Amazon Website!

Many folks I see that they want to purchase an Amazon gift card and trying to buy/sell items out of Amazon account. This is not possible in most cases even if buy a gift card from Amazon.

I see in the terms and conditions page where it says that it can be redeemed only in the Amazon account, not does help if you trying to redeem on their party vendors or websites. This should be noted if you’re a new gift card buyer on Amazon.

One thing for sure that Amazon never sells offer like cards, gift cards, at times you may find third party advertisers. Keep in mind you never make payments to other business or any individual websites.

If you’re doing so even it may appear to be legitimate but you might be heading in the wrong direction. Even if you had not paid a penny but spam emails will never be stopped. If you block one, the other one will come with different subject line. Watch out.

Vehicle offer scam: Amazon/eBay does not sell any sort of offers for their customers, but if you come across any offers like vehicles you may see specifications and images, read reviews, and ask owners about vehicles. Amazon.com does not sell vehicles.

DO NOT provide any gift card details (such as the claim code) to someone you do not know or trust. Once a claim code is provided to a fraudster or scammer, the funds will likely be completely spent before you are able to contact law enforcement or Amazon.

When you hit this types offer online sometimes you may also be redirected to Amazon website for a free gift card, please watch out as you may have landed on the wrong website.

Do Amazon Customers Happy!!!

Having said that, even it looks to me Amazon customers are not happy with the card or the offer either.

I see so many buyers actually been scammed there and still a lot of folks either not received a gift card or loaded with money. It’s all just an empty card. I’ll write a post more in detail in the next week.

Until then please stay safe with your credit card and never pay anything for the card. It seems 98% of offers in this domain seems like an utter scam. Are you with me!